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The $500,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial lottery drow 1s 5334138. first electronic literary magazine aoe 2 Sections (A & B) BUT NO GRANT Cominco funding still in the works A Canadian Press report that the federal government has rejected a request by Cominco Ltd. for a $60-million grant to help the mining FLIPPED OUT... RCMP and Castlegar fire crews inspect scene of accident Thursday morning on Highway 22. The driver of the truck- trailer escaped injury, though his vehicle overturned rupturing the diesel tank. The driver of a small cor involved in the mis! received minor injuries. CosNewsPhoto by Chery! Colderbank By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer A Castlegar woman received minor injuries Thurs day after the car she was driving struck a CP Transport truck on Highway 22 The accident occurred at 11 a.m. near Trowelex Rentals when a southbound late model Toyota driven by Bea Thompson of Castlegar veered into the northbound lane, striking a CP Transport ore truck-trailer driven by John Nickel of Cawston, B.C. The trailer overturned and Thompson received minor injuries. Nickel said he was coming downhill into Castlegar when the vehicle veered into his lane. He moved toward the side of the road to avoid hitting the Toyota but was struck anyway and the trailer turned over Nickel was hauling zine from Cominco. Castlegar RCMP did not have a damage estimate on the two vehicles. Transport truck overturns Castlegar fire department received a call at 11:15 a.m. and was at the scene within five minutes, said fire chief Bob Mann. The transport truck began leaking diesel fuel after its tank ruptured. Mann said the fire department was called out because of the possibility of a fire and the danger to traffic. Fuel was leaking “all over the highway,” he said: Mann said the fire department planned to pump the remaining fuel out of the tank, but by the time fire trucks arrived the fuel was over the road and sand was used to soak up the leak. “If it would have been a gas-powered truck there would have been a real fire,” Mann said. “It could have been a lot worse.” He said one pumper and a mini-pumper along with 10 firemen responded to the call The accident is still under investigation by Castlegar RCMP modernize its Trail lead smelter is “nothing new", Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said Friday. “Negotiations are still underway” for some sort of government assistance for lead modernization, Brisco said in an interview with the Castlegar News. “(Industry Minister) Sinclair Ste- vens is awaiting word from Cominco to set up another meeting,” Brisco said. “(Stevens) has absolutely no inten- tion of letting down the people of Kootenay East and Kootenay West and there will be a funding formula that will allow the smelter to go ahead,” Brisco said. A Canadian Press story out of Ottawa Friday morning indicated that the grant had been rejected and Cominco chairman Norm Anderson would meet with federal and provincial officials in Vancouver Friday to discuss another | put on the table by Stevens last Sunday. However, Brisco said there was no meeting scheduled for Friday. Brisco had said earlier this week that he didn’t believe Cominco would re- ceive the full $60 million grant, but that there would be some type of federal assistance. Meanwhile the Canadian Press re- port said Stevens has offered to pay part of the interest if a third party puts up the money. The investor would receive shares in Cominco, although the company would ferred-share type of where someone would put up the $60 million and Ottawa would antee a percentage of the interest,” says an insider. Cominco spokesman Don Townson said the compay had not been informed on any decision and still considers its grant request alive. The CP report also quotes Stevens as saying there “could be more than two options” on the table. Mines Minister Robert Layton said, however, the financing formula would NEAR KEENLEYSIDE DAM Fish net pen planned: By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer A net pen for Rainbow trout to be built near the Hugh Keenleyside Dam will eventually increase the Lower Arrow Lake's fish supply by between 20 and 30 per cent, “I would expect it to be in that order,” said Harvey Andrusak, region- al fisheries biologist with the Ministry of Environment in Nelson. “I wouldn't expect it in the first year, of course.” The Castlegar and District Wildlife Association initiated the project, and is working on it in conjunction with the ministry. Construction on the $7,800 net pen, which will raise between 10,000 and 20,000 fish, is to begin “in the next few weeks,” said Brian Briscoe president of the wildlife association. Most of the funds for the Arrow Lakes’ first net pen—which will be built with volunteer labor—will be raised through community donations. Brisco said that while he doesn't know exactly how much of the $7,800 has been collected, the association is “a long ways from that goal.” Most of the money raised so far is $5 and $10 donations from local fishermen and one larger donation from a local business, he said. More donations are needed. “We would like to say we built this thing with community support rather than going to the government for financial assistance,” said Briscoe, add ing that the extra fish will mean more tourists for Castlegar “People are willing to reap the bene fits from the tourism industry, but they're not willing to support it.” But lack of funding isn't going to stop the construction of the net pen, which will be located at Scottie’s Marina. “We're going to go ahead with it anyway — even if we have to take out a bank loan,” Briscoe said. About $2,500 worth of materials are to be loaned by the Ministry of Envir onment, which will also supply the fish feed, and act as consultants to the Project. Andrusak says the Lower Arrow ” Lake fish supply is down about 30 per cent because of the Hugh Keenleyside Dam, which interferes with the spawn ing eycle of fish. Added Briscoe: “We're doing what we can to beef it up a little bit. (But) what we're doing is a small project pared to what should be done.” Both Briscoe and Andrusak agree that the proposed $1.5 million fish ladder for the Inonoaklin Falls near Edgewood is the real key to restoring sport fishing on the Lower Arrow Lake. The ladder would help 500,000 Rainbow trout, Dolly Varden and Kokanee scale the falls and reach spawning beds upstream. However, the project — to be funded by B.C. Hydro which built the Hugh Keenleyside Dam — is currently in limbo because Inonoaklin Valley farmers are protesting that there isn't enough water for both the fish ladder and to irrigate farmland. probably be similar to the arrangement to Domtar Inc. by Ottawa and the Quebee government earlier this year. Quebec provided Domtar with a $150 million interest free loan to its paper mill in Windsor, Que. and Ottawa agreed to pay half the interest costs. An insider said he did not know how much money the federal government was willing to privide because the deal is contingent on the British Columbia government reducing Com- ineo’s $10 million water tax bill. He did not know if the government had found a third party to put up the $60 million, but added “I'm sure that wouldn't be any problem.” Cominco applied for the grant ~ because it's faced with a double-bar- relled problem of weak prices and mar- kets, plus the need to undertake major modernization programs. Cominco, owned 53 per cent by Canadian Pacific Enterprises, employs improvement over losses of $30 million in 1988 and $23.5 million in 1982. The fish in the Castlegar pen will be held from September to May or June, and then released in Deer Creek, near Deer Park. The trout will stay in the creek a year, returning to the Lower Arrow Lake (and expectant fishermen) in the summer of 1987 to mature. The increase in the lake's fish supply won't be sudden, but is rather “the beginning of a gradual build-up,” Briscoe said. “We're waiting to see how this one goes,” he added. “If there's no problem and it looks good, we're in a position to do more. More enhancement work.” continued on page A2 A spokesman for Central Foods said this store doesn’t carry any English cucumbers from Western “We have s different supplier,” he